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Fire Marshal Concerned Over E-cigarettes On Planes

Posted by ECigaVapeUSA on 10/13/2014 to E-Cigarette News
BOSTON (AP) — Federal regulators should consider further regulations on electronic cigarettes on airplanes, Massachusetts' top fire official said after his office recently concluded one of the devices caused a small fire on a plane at Logan Airport.

The Aug. 9 fire, confined to a single piece of luggage in the cargo hold, forced a temporary evacuation of the plane. A baggage handler located and extinguished the fire before the JetBlue aircraft took off for Buffalo, New York.

Massachusetts Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said his office's investigators confirmed, as initially had been suspected, that an e-cigarette packed in a passenger's checked luggage somehow turned on, causing the fire.

In a letter earlier this week to the Federal Aviation Administration, he expressed concern that the devices can be inadvertently triggered in the normal handling of luggage.

"If this fire had started in the cargo luggage area and was undetected while the plane was in flight, a major tragedy could have occurred," Coan wrote. "The fire service would like to be assured that the appropriate federal authorities are not only aware of this life safety hazard but are actively taking steps to address it."

E-cigarettes generally are lithium-ion battery-powered devices that can heat up to more than 200 degrees Fahrenheit as they convert liquid nicotine into an inhalable vapor. Like traditional cigarettes, passengers can't use them in-flight. Under U.S. aviation rules, they are considered "personal devices" like laptop computers, cellphones and camera and allowed onto planes.

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